Re: Why is it 'Grey' and 'Realm' space?

This would include the portal from Ed Greenwoods fireplace to the FR
that Elminster used to give Ed information on the realms. ;)

Tauster wrote:

>here´s the quote from ed, posted to REALMS-L in 2003:
>
>"...the idea that there were many gates (...)linking our real-world Earth
>and Faerûn. (...) These links are now largely "forgotten," and the world
>they reach (the Realms) with them, but they are the reason for our real-
>world tales of dragons, vampires, wizards hurling castle-shattering spells,
>and so on."
>
>here the full quote:
>
>[quote]
>I have never placed the Realms anywhere but in my own conception of a
>multiverse of many alternate, parallel worlds ("prime material planes" in
>D&D parlance). You as DM can have your favorite fictional fantasy worlds
>(Vance's Dying Earth, Zelazny's Amber, Piper's Otherwhen, etc. etc. and
>yes, Athas, Krynn, and Oerth, too, if you'd like) as some of the other
>worlds, if and only if you want to (hey, how about one world that's 1st
>Edition D&D, another that's second, a third that's 3E, and...well, no,
>perhaps not :}). Note that this doesn't mean you can't use Realmspace's
>crystal spheres and phlogiston-voyaging as well as plane-hopping.
>
>To cut down on lawsuits from angry parents from heck, TSR downplayed this
>concept because its implied real-world connection might lead someone to
>injure themselves through their misbeliefs of the fictional magic of the
>game and Realms fiction being real, but no reasonable revisionist of gaming
>history can deny that the concept existed, because my very name "Forgotten
>Realms" exists because of it: the idea that there were many gates
>("portals" in 3E parlance, but check my gates article in issue 37 of The
>Dragon, as it was called then, for the original view) linking our real-
>world Earth and Faerûn (I purposely left the "rest of the globe" hazy, so
>Jeff Grubb contributed Abeir-Toril as a world/planetary name). These links
>are now largely "forgotten," and the world they reach (the Realms) with
>them, but they are the reason for our real-world tales of dragons,
>vampires, wizards hurling castle-shattering spells, and so on.
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>----
>
>Folk of Faerûn refer to 'the Realms', but not 'the Forgotten Realms'. The
>term 'Toril' is rarely used save by academics.
>[end of quote]
>
>
>so the name "realmspace" refers to the many realms on toril, (if i didn´t
>get it wrong). considered that toril is the planet with the most
>inhabitants, that might be logical. on the other hand, there are lots of
>spheres whose planet with the largest population is "splintered" in many
>realms; and all of them have other names...
>
>tauster
>
>
>On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 09:13:23 -0500, Novamaster <novamaster@??????.ca> wrote:
>
>
>>The term "Forgotten Realms" HAS been used by residents. The mage and
>>guide Volo used it once, in the comic "The Grand Tour", saying "This is
>>the Realms, called Forgotten only by those who do not know it" Its
>>possible that he used the term in one of his tour guides that made it
>>off plant and it stuck....What can I say? I like Volo...
>>
>>
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